The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-20

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A FEARFUL railroad wreck took place on
the Missouri Pacific near Dunbar, Neb, OF
the night of the 11th. A south-bound ey
press train was wrecked bywhich Engineel
James Dewitt, Of Wyandotte, Kan, wa:
killed, the express messenger Frank Chen
oweth, of Kansas City, Mo-, fatally injured
and several others hurt. The accident wa:
caused by the removal Of two rails by SONS
malicious persons. d. W. Hoffman anC
James Bell were arrested and lodged in jai
on the charge of committing the deed.
THE San Francisco police recently found
another bomb in a sewer.
In the circuit court at Indianapolis, Ind.
on the 18th, in the application filed by
President Green Smith, of the Senate, pray
ing for an injunction restraining Eieuten
ant Governor Robertson from performing
the duties of his Office, the attorneys fol
the latter moved for a continuance un
til after the adjournment of the Legislature
Judge Ayres overruled the motion, and
gave Robertson until the next day to an
swer Smiths complaint.
BECAUSE of the scarcity of coal Have
meyer & Elders sugar refinery, in Brook
lyn, was shut down a short time ago
About eight hundred hands were thrown
out of work.
ROBERT HoLsEY and Tiffany Rail were
frightfully burned at Lima, O., a short time
ago, and will die.
A RECENT dispatch from New York said
that at least 10000 men had been thrown
out of employment, and that large num-
Der of persons were suffering as result OF
the strike of $4,000 coal handlers.
THE jury in the Hamilton case reported
on the afternoon of the 18th that they were
unable to agree and were discharged by the
Judge. They announced that they stood
seven for conviction and five for acquitta |.
AT the Second Baptist Church at Adrian,
Mich, short time ago, Susan Brown, col
ored, was seized with religious excitement
and sprang to her feet shouting ''Glory,
hallelujahr' ~ and the next instant dropped
dead.
A MURDERoUs affray took place recently
in Chicago Chinese laundry between two
Celestials. One shot at the other but
missed him and then beat him over the head
with a revolver till he was unconscious.
JUDGE PRATT, of the Supreme Court of
New York, handed down mis- ong-delayed
decision in the case of eX-Alderman Nc
Quade, denying the motion for a stay of
proceedings pending an appeal. The eff
feet of denial for stay caused his i'm
mediate transfer to the State prison.
THE executive committee of miners and
laborers' subdivision No. l of district as
sembly No 135, Knights of Labor, which
includes the entire anthracite coal fields,
held a session at Hazelton, Pa, recently and
resolved to declare general strike of all
the employees engaged in the mining of coal
that goes to places affected by the strike of
the New Jersey freight handlers, as being
the most effective manner of rendering
them assistance.
A RECENT telegram said that the strike
at Newport News had been settled and the
troops had returned to Richmond.
THE New York World recently published
seven colnmns of the improper disburse-
ment of over $1,000, 900 by the presidents o.
the Union Pacific railroad.
A TREMENDOUS explosion recently took
place in a powder mill, twelve miles from
Springfield, o.
CHOLERA was reported epidemic in the
Argentine Republic a short time ago and
hundreds were dying daily.
A CHICAGO telegram said short time
ago that Spies, the anarchist, would be mar
ried in jail soon to Miss Eva Van Zandt
a PRAIRIE fire recently destroyed 1900
acres of pasture and several thousand sheep
near Taylor, Tex.
A RECENT telegram said that heavy snow
storms have stopped traffic in New York.
REV. JOHN PATTERSON, Presbyterian, at
Cambridge, Wis. recently cut his throat;
caused by mental alteration.
THREE Cinnamon were lately burned to
death in hotel in Salem, Ore.
THE Chatham express to New York was
lately reported stuck in snowdrift at Co
pake, n. Y, and it was said the train would
have to remain there indefinitely, as it
would have to be dug out with shovels.
THE Governor of Herat was recently sum-
moned to Cabool to answer charges of Sc
cretly favOring Russia, and fomenting a
hatred of England among the Afghan peO-
pie. If found guilty he will be sentenced to
death.
THOMAS j. CLUvERIUS was hanged at
Va, recently for the murder of
Lillian Madison.
TEXAS was recently reported suffering
from the most severe drouth ever expe-
rienced there.
On the 18th two attempts were made to
damage the Sutter street cable road in San
Francisco. In the first attempt dynamite
was placed on the track which
wrecked dummy No. 81 and
shattered the windows of the houses in the
immediate vicinity The second attempt,
which happened an hour after the first, did
not do any damage.